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    Eric Noah's 3rd Edition Website

    I am not that old to only know it is a website. I joined it when it was already a forum website, and 3E had been released for a while. Long enough for my then-newly joined and now-long-defunct gaming group to pick up the rules and started playing it.
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    D&D 3E/3.5 The 4E We Didnt Get.

    IIRC, bad saves where 1/3 your level and good saves were 1/2 your level +2. Also, Fighters automatically fail all Fortitude Saves against save or die effects. You still get to roll and all, but we all know how it ends. :(
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    D&D (2024) Do players really want balance?

    I dunno, ultimately balance might just be a way to achieve something they want. I think most players want the feeling that they contribute to the game they take part in it. That can however be subjective, some people "need" to be more in the spotlight to enjoy the game than others, for example...
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    D&D (2024) The Problem with Healing Powercreep

    I think that isn't as good as answer as you might think. If you can't heal in combat, at least with an ablative hit point system, is that you know that you still can take X hits before you're in real danger. So there isn't a lack of tension until the very end, where suddenly you might be dead...
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    Space: 1999 Coming From Modiphius

    So, is it any good?
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    Favorite Superhero TTRPG

    Torg. Okay, not really, but that is the closest to a superhero system I actually played. All storm knights have a bit of superheroic abiltiies thanks to their possibilities and coming from realms with access to different levels of technology and magic, and Terra's pulp heroes specifically can...
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    What makes a TTRPG tactical?

    I like the definition of a game as a series of interesting decisions, and would say that "tactical combat" is applying this to the combat scale. In some cases, the interesting decision might just be: Do we fight or not? - in a game with tactical combat, the stuff during the combat also has a lot...
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    Electric Car Ownership - Any Experiences?

    I have no idea how much more common it is for German apartments is to have a parking spot linked to. Germans like to complain, so our drivers are of course all horrible, except myself of course, but I strongly suspect German drivers are indeed better than Americans. Our driving license...
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    Electric Car Ownership - Any Experiences?

    That will be an issue for a while but over time, landlords will upgrade properties with charging options, just as they at some point had to ensure running water, electricity and internet connectivity over the years. IIRC, German law already makes it difficult if not impossible for landlords to...
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    Trailer TERMINATOR ZERO | Official Trailer | Netflix

    Who does even care whether the planet exists or that nature goes on? it would be terrible if we destroyed it - to us. The planet, the sun, the universe, they'll move on, uncaring for anything. Whether we kill only off ourselves or all life on this planet - the only ones currently that wax...
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    D&D 3E/3.5 Convert Staff of Defense to D&D 3.5

    If you want it to stack with Mage Armor and Shield, a deflection bonus might be the best fit.
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    Spoilers Alien: Romulus (Spoilers)

    The last 15 minutes it really felt like they wanted too much. I would have been fine with a bit of alien: redux and sequel bait rather than super-fast alien life cycle here. But the movie does really takes and uses its time well to introduce the world and the characters, set the stakes, and has...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    No ,they were trained as Jedi, who act as investigators, warriors, philosophers and apparently even researchers (which is what they were doing on the planet). What are you going to push hard on? We know practically nothing about the Jedi Order in the OT! Basically Obi Wan, Yoda and Anakin (aka...
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    Spoilers Star Wars: The Acolyte [Spoilers]

    Subtleties and shades of grey work better if not everything is based on people failing to communicate properly on a very basic level, and people trained for discipline taking rash and irrational actions. That's something that is more for comedies. We're probably in the medium place - we get to...
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    Star Wars: Skeleton Crew - coming Dec 2024

    Well, if it's a Star Wars response to Star Trek: Prodigy, it could be fun. Is "has kids in it, it is not a kids show" code for "we want adults to watch this, too" or code for "it's really not kid-friendly". Prodigy is the former, and works well IMO as adult, the latter sounds kinda...
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    D&D 4E D&D 4E Post-Mortem

    This seems to be a surprisingly common issue, it's a topic for software engineering, too. Customers know wether they like what they got, but getting the description of how it would need to be beforehand can be very hard. Some of the "Agile Development" methodoloy in software development is...
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    D&D 4E D&D 4E Post-Mortem

    That sounds like a challenging situation, kudos to you. The lack of solid tool support for 4E now kinda sucks, I agree. It never occured to me that it would be extra bad with the younger generation of players because they rely mostly on smartphones! I guess I am lucky that my group is mostly...
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    D&D General I'm a Creep, I'm a Powergamer: How Power Creep Inevitably Destroys Editions

    This might be true in a turn-based table top RPG, but it isn't true for all games. In a real-time game, power creep on the offensive side can lead to the game being much faster than it used to be. I've personally experienced this with Star Trek Online (PvP has always been a bit of an...
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    Trailer Star Trek: Section 31 | Teaser Trailer | Paramount+

    The trailer is definitely not selling it to me. I am going to watch it anyway, because I am too much of a fan to miss out on it, I'll need to see it for myself. Fundamentally, Section 31 only works for me if either it isn't as black ops and evil as it made out to me, or if it is exactly as black...
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    Space: 1999 Coming From Modiphius

    Knight Rider RPG. Everyone has their own talking car with turbo boost, and you're fighting crime. I guess an A-Team RPG would work much easier, the A-Team is actually a party of different roles!
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